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Sony and Bethesda win by a mileThe final results are in! After every E3 conference we provided a full recap, and at the end, a poll that allowed you to voice your opinion with a "love, like, okay, and hate" rating. I've tabulated the "loves" and "likes" in...

Another PC-centric announcement at the first ever PC Gaming Show at E3!
The Coalition's Rod Fergusson took the stage to reveal that Gears of War Ultimate Edition, which was just unveiled yesterday for Xbox One, is coming...

At the PC gaming show this evening, Xbox's Phil Spencer came out and introduced a few developers working on PC and Xbox One. One game in the presentation was Fable Legends, which I liked the last time I played it.
In addition...

Today at the first ever PC Gaming Show at E3, Phil Spencer took the stage to talk a bit about Windows 10. Spencer stated, "for me, there are a lot of opportunities for cross-platform, but there's a lot of games that should be...

We -- me, Jordan, Kyle MacGregor, Brett Makedonski, and Kenny Redublo -- shot some videos throughout the day yesterday discussing the major press conferences. We got kicked out of the Lakers' arena trying to talk about Micro...

It doesn't have Donkey Kong Country or GoldenEye, but Rare Replay does offer a neat challenge for Battletoads fans: how long can you stay alive on the infamous speeder bike sequence?
During a hands-on session with t...

Talking of backwards compatibility... did you notice what wasn't on that list of playable titles?
Kinect games. There are no Kinect games. No Kinectimals, no Kinect Sport, no Dance Central. It seems that Xbox's all-singing, a...

I was very excited when, at yesterday's E3 Conference, Xbox's Phil Spencer announced that "BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY!" was coming to Xbox One.
I thought that I'd be able to pander to nostalgia at a whim, grab any one of t...

Let's poll the audience...wait, we did!The results are in! I've been recording your opinions for the press conferences so far at E3 2015, and Sony is winning by a 78% ratio of "love" or "enjoy" ratings. In second place, neck and neck is Bethesda with a 77% approva...

Well, this is going to be a recurring theme today. As soon as press conferences end, Amazon's going to go live with pre-orders for all the games. Convenient for those who like that sort of thing.
The first instance (apart fro...

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Chris Carter
Halo 5 will feature 24-player mode with 'Warzone Multiplayer'
Keiji Inafune and Metroid Prime devs unveil Xbox One exclusive ReCore
Xbox One will now be backwards compatible
Xbox One Elite Controller announced, lets you customise it
Fallout 4 on Xbox One will support PC-made mods
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is coming!
EA Access adding Titanfall and Dragon Age: Inquisition to the Vault
Forza 6 reps American muscle for Xbox One
Dark Souls III confirmed for early 2016
Tom Clancy's The Division is getting an Xbox One Exclusive Beta in December
Pardon the interruption
Rainbow Six Siege will come with free Vegas 1 and 2 on Xbox One
Tacoma's new trailer has a lot of zero-g goodness
Xbox One Game Preview lets you play games still in development
Ashen looks like Microsoft's answer to Journey
Cuphead still looks amazing in this new trailer!
Beyond Eyes coming to Xbox One and PC
Gigantic beta hits Xbox One, Windows 10 in Aug.
Montage music and a ton of awesome-lookin' Xbox indies
Microsoft announces 'Rare Replay," with 30 classic Rare games
Rise of the Tomb Raider gets a November release date
DayZ creator's ION is an MMO set in space
Rare announces 'most ambitious project yet,' Sea of Thieves
Microsoft outline future VR plans - working with Valve on the Vive
How're you liking the Microsoft E3 conference?
There's a Skyrim-lookin' dude in Fable Legends
Mo-yang?
Gears of War Ultimate Edition coming August 25
Gears of War 4 announced features new characters
Wow, Minecraft on Microsoft's Hololens looks hot
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Backwards compatibility! Your move SonyWell, that was a nice little conference! Microsoft didn't blow me away this year, but I enjoyed it as a whole, and so far, there have been no disasters of any kind on the level of Caffeine Man (Google it).
The biggest ne...

We have seen snippets of Minecraft on HoloLens in the past, but at Microsoft's E3 press conference today, a couple of presenters showed off something that had us putting up the respect knuckles. With a special camera showing ...

Gears of War 4 has been announced by The Coalition at Microsoft's E3 press conference, and it looks spooky as hell. No familiar faces were in the trailer, as it looks like the game focuses on all new characters. Fans of the series will be happy to know that the Gnasher shotgun, Stub pistol, and Lancer are still here.
Coming exclusively to Xbox One, the release date is still unannounced.

Looks like the Gears of War Ultimate Edition will be here in just a couple of months. If you're itching to get the chainsaw revving, you can play it when it releases August 25.
I remember being 14 and thinking Gears of W...

Microsoft has announced its plans for VR at its E3 conference. Alongside the already known partnership with Oculus for the Rift, Microsoft also announced it will be partnering closely with Valve to ensure the Vive headset is ...

Rare just revealed its next project, Sea of Thieves, a pirate-themed Xbox One exclusive.
Other than that details are pretty scarce at the moment. Prior to the showing off the game, which looks like it might be an MMO, a studio rep dubbed the title Rare's "most ambitious project to date."

Hey everyone, Rise of The Tomb Raider is coming to Xbox One on November 10.
There's also a chunk of gameplay footage which we will have up shortly. The game appears to be both faster and more action packed than the last Tomb Raider, which is pretty cool to see.

Rare Replay will hit Xbox One on August 4 for $30, Microsoft announced today. It will include 30 games as an anthology of sorts, including Perfect Dark, Blast Corps, Battletoads, and even retro classics like Snake Rattl...

We're not training for the big fight. We're not getting the house back into presentable shape after a totally sick rager. We're looking at a bunch of Microsoft's indie games for Xbox One, and a lot of them look pretty great....

Tiger and Squid is bringing its blind adventure Beyond Eyes to the Xbox One and PC. You play as a young girl without sight, and it looks like a beautiful little romp through a watercolor world.
It's set for a 2015 release date.

The above trailer for the cartoon-esque Cuphead was just unveiled at Microsoft's E3 press conference. The trailer shows off plenty of new enemies, including an evil carrot and a giant mermaid that Cuphead fights in an airplane.
Cuphead releases in 2016 exclusively on Xbox One.

Microsoft spent a little bit of time on ID@Xbox, its independent game initiative. Nestled in the middle was Ashen, a dark exploration game. In the trailer, a man gets impaled with a spear and a scary skeleton tree does a roa...

Gone Home developer Fullbright has released a new trailer for its upcoming first-person zero-gravity game Tacoma at the Microsoft E3 event.
We currently don’t have a release date, but it’s already looking gorgeous.

Microsoft announced today at its 2015 E3 press conference that Rainbow Six Siege, which launches later this year, will arrive with free copies of Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2. This is due in part to the backwards compatibility program unveiled earlier in their show.
I'm completely okay with this bonus -- I could use another playthrough of those two classics.

Excited to finally get to play Tom Clancy's The Division? Well, if you're an Xbox One owner then you're in luck. The game is getting an exclusive beta on Xbox One this December, announced on stage during Microsoft's E3 press ...

Electronic Art's EA Access subscription-based service ($4.99 per month, or $29.99 annually) is adding Titanfall this week. Not sure how thriving the community is but I never gave it a shot, so now I might!
In similarly cool news, Dragon Age: Inquisition will be out for the service sometime this summer. Not a bad deal!

Ever since Morrowind on the original Xbox, Bethesda's Todd Howard has wanted console gamers to have a comparable experience with PC gamers. One thing has stood in the way of that for The Elder Scrolls and Fallout: mods. Begin...

Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 arrives next spring, EA announced at Microsoft's E3 press conference. It will feature new characters and weapons. From watching the trailer it looks like there was a mech, and super hero ad...

At the Microsoft expo at E3, Microsoft has unveiled its new Xbox One controller design, dubbed the “Elite.”
Microsoft is claiming it will have increased precision, but more importantly it will also bring customis...